Ashutosh Bapat is Principal SDE, Manager at EDB, where he is currently working on EDB Postgres Distributed. He specializes in database internals, partitioning, query optimization, logical replication and BDR.

Ashutosh has been working in database internals development for more than 17 years. After completing masters from IIT Bombay, he started working with Sybase's ASE. He has primarily worked with distributed database systems; shared disk as well as shared nothing architectures. He was part of the Postgres-XC team. He has contributed features in the areas of partitioning, query optimization, FDW to open source PostgreSQL.